1975 in Japan

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Other events of 1975
List of years in Japan

Events from the year 1975 in Japan.

Incumbents

Emperor: Hirohito
Prime Minister: Takeo Miki (Liberal Democratic)
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Ichitaro Ide
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Tomokazu Murakami
President of the House of Representatives: Shigesaburō Maeo
President of the House of Councillors: Kenzō Kōno
Diet sessions: 75th (regular session opened in December 27, 1974, to July 4), 76th (extraordinary, September 11 to December 25), 77th (regular, December 27 to May 24, 1976)

Events

January 1 - A hotel bus plunges into Lake Aoki in Nagano Prefecture, killing 24.
July 20 - opening of Expo '75 in Okinawa.
November 2–8 - 1975 Japan Open Tennis Championships held in Tokyo.
November 3 - Miss International 1975 held at Expo Portside Theater, Motobu, Okinawa.
December 31 - 17th Japan Record Awards held in Tokyo.

Films

Banned Book: Flesh Futon
Cruelty: Black Rose Torture
Dersu Uzala, directed by Akira Kurosawa
Gorenger the Movie
Gorenger: The Blue Fortress
Graveyard of Honor, directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, directed by Tomoharu Katsumata
Kamen Rider Amazon
Kamen Rider Stronger
Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute, directed by Shohei Imamura
Newlywed Hell
Oryu's Passion: Bondage Skin
The Return of the Sister Street Fighter, directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Terror of Mechagodzilla, directed by Ishirō Honda
Tokyo Emmanuelle
Tora-san's Rise and Fall, directed by Yoji Yamada
Tora-san, the Intellectual, directed by Yoji Yamada
A Woman Called Sada Abe, directed by Noboru Tanaka

Births

January 1 – Eiichiro Oda, illustrator and author (One Piece)
January 30 – Yumi Yoshimura, singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
February 6 – Tomoko Kawase, singer
February 10 – Hiroki Kuroda, baseball pitcher
April 3
- Koji Uehara, baseball pitcher
- Yoshinobu Takahashi, professional baseball player
April 27 – Kazuyoshi Funaki, ski jumper
May 19 – Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro, manga artist (Seikimatsu Leader den Takeshi!, Toriko)
July 5 – Ai Sugiyama, tennis player
July 22 – Kenshin Kawakami, baseball pitcher
August 24 – Hayato Sakurai, martial artist
September 6 – Ryoko Tani, judoka
November 11 – Daisuke Ohata, rugby union player
November 16 – Yuki Uchida, actress
December 16 – Masaki Sumitani, television performer
December 30 – Yoma Komatsu, singer

Deaths

February 11 – Hideo Shinojima, footballer (b. 1910)
May 30 – Tatsuo Shimabuku, martial artist and founder of Isshin-ryu karate (b. 1908)
June 3 – Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901)
November 20 – Tokushichi Mishima, inventor and engineer (b. 1893)

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1975 in Asia

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